Ruth had a kindred spirit. What’s happening in your backyard
Perm enate mulch state no mulching, watering, weeding.
It’s the easiest way to garden
The year-round mulch, no plowing, sow, or cover, weed water, or irrigate P. 6
use cotton seed or soybean) P. 6) minimal labor need. Need to use hay. Have a mulch 8 inches deep
She does not use manure, the mulch takes its place
if you see weeds, throw on some jay or mulch
Chapter 2: P. 19 Asparagus is the easiest vegetable to grow
requires less work…no diseases…fresh pick
Peppers do not have a mind for themselves…or do they?
use roots, not seeds for asparagus
use surface planting for asparagus
maybe combine vegetables and flowers
mulch with hay use about 8 inches
mulch does keep your soil a little cooler (so mange your mulch)
hay is the best mulch of all
Plant the asparagus in the tulip beds
Chapter 3: Grow your own corn
11 ways to make mulch work
Dr. Dick Clemons about mulch
corn should be placed 6 inches and a half a foot apart
close planting is questionable because of sun
Do you need a garden bigger than you need?
don’t hill up corn. like squirrel, woodchucks, or animals
she puts up a screen for a barrier. Use a bag to put over your corn, maybe use a rubber band to secure. or slip a paper bag over the corn (P.40)
Chapter 4: Potato’s in the iris bed and onions in the hay
are iris and potato’s ae food idea? it’s to tame, but it worked!
Re and his iris. Plant on surface
Way of living is more important than “hair, cosmetic, and etc”********
Chapter 5 All those pesky so-and-sos
mulching helps (over many years)
We don’t spray tomato’s ******
keep mulch close to plant
cabbage worm-a little salt on the cabbage ***
poison is sanitary, worm holes are unsanitary ***
Do slugs like beer?
birds have no gratitude for a bird bath’
Eating like bird or 5 times your human weight
Chapter 6 Where to plant what
Is it necessary with rotting mulch?
Add cotton seed and meal to the ground for nitrogen.
on page 75 she was talking about St. Peter and entrance to heaven
Need a plan put on paper
need lima beans, pole beans (spread of 12″)
try corn (8″ apart)
Buy seeds at a seed house P.85 *****
Chapter 7 Jack Frost and children garden
mulching is good
never to much mulch
shows life in a mulched garden (P. 94-96)
Chapter 8 Rotation
need to use mulch to plant anything next season
potash distracts beetles (p.99)
cool lettuce seeds before planting ******
author buy virus free plants
rabbits like crocuses
Thinnig is a painful process
Chapter 10 Conservation is not enough
mulching is the cost conservative process (p.132) for soil conservation
talk about the soil bank. Needs to be in grass
use so much paper in a days (so save trees)
man is the most terrible sight of all (P.136) Mr. Krutch
he thinks we all need love
man hopes that man can be the game.
man is a threat to himself (p.138)
note: we need earthworms
Chapter 11 fifteen hundred beavers she did not get too impressed
stressed health of no poisons nor chemicals
rich soul with earthworms
Chapter 12 Be glad you’re a food faddist
garden organic, no fertilizer
it’s as old as all time
Cain (garden of Eden) was a digger
Organic is letting the natural process take place
Organic gardening is all natural
for organic gardening 40 years ago there was very minimal diseases.
the automobile was a the start of chemical fertilizer
organic farming does limit both insects and diseases.
Organic can relieve some pesty insects
organic gardening is just at the scratch of development
talk of organic vs. chemicals trials
To let bean et old and tough
beets will wait for the first frost (p.178-181)
young onions are scallions
radishes can get hot and pithy if old
eat these vegetables raw or use a juicer
the author would prefer a nap over juicing (p.183)
use French dressing instead of heating
use mustard and sour cream
she does not freeze carrots
serve cheese with this or that or carrots with raisins
Chapter 14 How’s that again
nitrogen needs to decompose to conserve nitrogen
need earthworms
people plow is doing things just as they have also had
more air in mulched soil
watch out for weed seed for mulching
to be happy for life….Plant a garden (P.206). Chinese proverbs; you will see gratitude when it sprouts
MG Buds book club 
Talking Points
if you see weeds, throw on some hay or mulch
corn should be placed 6 inches and a half a foot apart
Way of living is more important than “hair, cosmetic, and etc”********
We don’t spray tomato’s ******
keep mulch close to plant
cabbage worm-a little salt on the cabbage ***
poison is sanitary, worm holes are unsanitary ***
Do slugs like beer?
birds have no gratitude for a bird bath’
Eating like bird or 5 times your human weight
Add cotton seed and meal to the ground for nitrogen.
on page 75 she was talking about St. Peter and entrance to heaven
Need a plan put on paper
try corn (8” apart)
Buy seeds at a seed house P.85 *****
never to much mulch
potash distracts beetles (p.99)
cool lettuce seeds before planting ******
mulching is the cost conservative process (p.132) for soil conservation
talk about the soil bank. Needs to be in grass
he thinks we all need love
man hopes that man can be the game.
man is a threat to himself (p.138)
stressed health of no poisons nor chemicals
rich soul with earthworms
people plow is doing things just as they have also had
more air in mulched soil
watch out for weed seed for mulching
to be happy for life….Plant a garden (P.206). Chinese proverbs; you will see gratitude when it sprouts
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